trippy half-sleep stuff
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- o0o
We've all had the awake-but-cant-move thing. What else?
One of my strange ones is where I believe I'm not one person, but two, or a whole crowd. I can't completely go to sleep because the many instances of me are arguing. Might be a sign of schizophrenia or something :P
- paulrand0
I've had lots of crazy experiences in this state... I just observe and go with it .
- Gorbie0
One afternoon, I was real tired. I fell asleep on the couch. Then I woke up and started to walk towards the kitchen.
As I was walking slowly, I felt like something was behind me. I turned around quickly and saw myself laying on the couch. When I realized it was me; the 'me' on the couch opened his eyes suddenly - staring right at me.
There was a short screeching sound, like that of air coming out of a balloon. Then a loud POP!
I woke up sweating like crazy. Still sitting on the couch.
- Gorbie0
wake-up-and-can't-move-thing:
- o0o0
that's a good one..
I worked on lucid dreaming for a while, there are some techniques you can use to cause them. But I only had one good one where I was totally consious while still in the dream.
In the dream I was standing infront of a mirror. I could see I had long hair, then I though "wait, I don't have long hair.... !!this is a dream." I decided to test it by making myself levitate. It worked and I was so exited I woke up.
- skonge0
sometimes in a dream i tell myself its only a dream and then i wake up. i do i know its a dream?
- skonge0
damn it, now i'm gonna have nightmares.
- o0o0
there are different levels of lucidity
"Lucidity is not synonymous with dream control. It is possible to be lucid and have little control over dream content, and conversely, to have a great deal of control without being explicitly aware that you are dreaming."
from here:
- Gorbie0
interesting. I'll check that out.
By the way...
Have you ever used a Nicoderm patch whilst sleeping.
wow.
- chinaman0
oOo
Those instances are still the original you, but you are just embedded in different movieClips controlled by the mainTimeline.
- IRNlun60
in this past year I have been able to learn how to fly in my dreams, but only when i am aware that i'm dreaming. it happens about once or twice a month. the last time it happend I was flying over some city. feels pretty sweet. the strange thing is that it's either really positive or really violent.
- ********0
Hey cool topic,
I've had intensily lucid dreams of both sorts. Sometimes I can choose my environments but not my actions and vis-versa and sometimes it's just me in a room but everything is perfectly pure, stilll and clear.
I've also had times when I'd be half asleep half awake, like right before I'm out for the night, when I realize I can hear breathing in my ear like there's someone behind me. Then it'll feel like the person is holding me and stopping me from moving. It's one of scariest feelings in the world.
AndI've had alien abduction dreams that are essentially the same as the lucid ones only with aliens. No anal probing though.
I've heard it's realated to how your brain functions in these states. Certain areas become more active and stuff.
But whatever it's cool to hear other people's stories!
- zachary0
Speak of the devil... there's a special on the discovery channel right now about this stuff. It's a show about alien abductions, but the twist is that many peoples' abduction accounts are actually the result of sleep paralysis. According to the show, one's cultural background may be a determinant in what they hallucinate about during periods of sleep paralysis, ie aliens, ghosts, demons, etc.
Personally I've never had any experiences of this kind, but it is quite a fascinating topic.
- Carty0
sleep pa·ral·y·sis. i've had episodes of non body control moments before sleep. very fcuked.
watch redX the peter tosh story... amazing explanations of this state with a rastafari perspective.
- CyBrainX0
My favorite dream ever happened when I was in high school. It was morning and I was sure I was in a dream. Since I knew, I wondered what would happen if I lifted my eyelid in my sleep. I did it one time and saw daylight and realized it might be time to wake up. I did it a second time and thought how cool it was. The third time I tried, I woke myself up and freaked out. What a mind fuck that was.
- o0o0
haha chinaman - true. Actually I've had "code" half-dreams, sounds and ideas become bits of code I'm trying to organize. That's fukd.
carty I'll have to check out RedX, can you tell us more about that interpretation?
I heard that in some forms of buddhism lucid dreaming is an important skill. The idea is, after you die you face demon-illusions like the buddha did. If you are skilled in lucid dreaming you have a better chance of recognizing the illusion and acheiving enlightenment...
- chinaman0
i used to have those sleep paralysis ones all the time, i had one once where this really old cellar door was creaking open slowly and i knew i didn't want to see what was behind it but i couldn't shake out of it.
- chilaquil0
Shit man... I never knew other people had this sleep paralysis thing...!!! Except for people in my family (everybody, my grandfather, my mother, and my sister all have had it) everyone looks at me like I'm nuts when I talk about it.
Does anyone know any statistics on it? Like what percentage of the population suffers from this?
And one thing I'd like to know, is how come all of the hallucinations are always terrifying shit..? I never hallucinate about pink elephants or surfing in the rainbow. It's always some very frightening shit you see and hear in the middle of it. I've seen monsters, ghosts, scary looking shadows, etc. The worse part of it is that sometimes you're about 70% awake and with your eyes open and it's worse...Man your brain must really be blowing a head gasket when that happens.
And as far as just dreams go, I always have them almost every night. My last one was really funny. I had a dream that I was with a friend in a park. Pretty normal stuff. Then I woke up and it was very early, so I went back to bed. Then I dreamt AGAIN that I was with that same friend, and I was telling him that I had a dream about him and he was like "oh, that's weird" then I woke up and was sort of surprised at the fact that I WASN'T awake before... That was a complete mindfuck.
- o0o0
chilaquil, found this
"According to a new study, roughly 6 percent of all people have had at least one episode of sleep paralysis, while slightly less than 1 percent have at least one episode a week." here: http://abcnews.go.com/sections/l… I thought it was more common, actually.
so what was in the cellar chinaman??
- Mal0
- chilaquil0
hey o0o,
thanks for the link.
If that's only one percent of the population, who suffers from it at least once a week, no wonder nobody knew what I was talking about.
However, based on this thread, I think the amount of NTers affected by this seems to be disproportioned. I wonder if it affects more people that are in creative professions..(?)